we live in a society
BERNIE CALLS UPON THE GAMERS
Jace Adams
Other urls found in this thread:
wonkette.com
twitter.com
Eli Garcia
based and redpilled
Isaac Allen
Note that, unfortunately, many of the founders of these game industry unions are more concerned about idpol bullshit and virtue signalling like #metoo than they are about core issues such as hours, crunch, intentionally high staff turnover, and low pay. They also have issues with being tied to trades that arguably do not have the best interests of gaming as a medium at heart, such as voice actors and moderators, rather than gaming-focused trades such as programmers and illustrators.
This has been a problem reaching back at least to the IGDA, a yellow union/industry group that was at the heart of GG.
Hopefully something good can come of efforts at unionizing the game industry, and salaried/tech jobs in general, but it will have to be with a steady hand and an eye against diversion into porky antics that will do nothing to protect workers.
Bentley Martinez
What is it about entertainment industries like hollywood and gaming that attracts SJWs anyway?
Lincoln Rodriguez
Nothing, they're actively trying to subvert the industries by taking control and putting in their own guidelines that the industry must follow or die. It already happened to books believe it or not but thankfully literally no one reads modern fiction, and the music industry. Resetera and FemFrequency openly hate nerd culture but claim to love it so much that they want to change it for the worst, not even /v/eddit is that level of anti fun.
Brayden Walker
In entertainment generally, excessive reverence paid to PR/HR flacks and their social circle, rather than professionals (artists) themselves.
In gaming/tech/nerd-dom specifically, socially incompetent and naïve people who have neither the faculties nor experience to say no to deceptive social-climbing con artists. Like native Americans having no immunity to plague blankets, they're an ideal soft target for SJWs.
Owen Moore
Not to mention that SJWs dovetail nicely into what the Bourgeoisie want, a bunch of unthinking, uncritical, consuming morons who just let cultural shit be shoveled into their mouths as long as it virtue-signals the right messages. The SJWs are completely oblivious to the fact that the Capitalists don't actually give a crap about their issues and are only using them to gain more profits.
Jeremiah Bailey
I don't know if they're oblivious, or if they just don't care. Remember that SJWs are usually spoiled rich kids and such who have nothing better to do than argue about idpol all day. They aren't working class.
Christian Ross
They're not oblivious. They think the motive is irrelevant, that what matters is getting companies to do what they want. See the recent Anita Sarkeesian tweet threatening CD Projekt Red over Cyberpunk 2020 being problematic. She went full on "nice game you got here. be a shame if something happened to it." Of course, she's using the old model of threats instead of the new model of collaboration…
What they are oblivious or ambivalent about is that these fights are not against the companies' interests. They go along with SJW marketing precisely because it doesn't threaten the business model. Actual class struggle like unionizing programmers or animators would get push back (a lot) and SJWs aren't into that. They all just want a performative conflict that the companies can use for marketing and the wokies can use to get clicks. Stirring up these conflicts are a safe thing to use to distract people from class conflict because despite what idpol left-libs believe, identitarian issues do not underpin or undermine capitalism.
Brayden Peterson
/v/ nowadays are post-2016 posters and too young to have a job
NEETs their entire life
or born with a silver spoon in their mouth
Neither of them know how hard it is to work and neither of them know that being a game dev is one of the most unthankful jobs there is.
Nowhere is the wage/skill ratio so abysmal.